whoah, this is the best project i've seen in awhile; great tutorial, too. i'll make these to hold my recycled paper stashes throughout the house. thanks, slick!

a liitle recycler's note: it should be illegal to not offer paper as an alternative to plastic bags.if your store doesn't, try requesting a change for the better. in some countries, you'd have to pay extra for using plastic. they take 1,000 years to break down and are lethal to wildlife. learn morehere.

Sweet! I was just trying to knit some plastic bags on chopsticks during my lunch hour...I'd seen in knitknit magazine that someone was crocheting strips cut from carrier bags and I thought that would be a good farmer's market bag for myself...but now I'm imagining a paper bag backpack! Thanks for the great project!

hey! you can varnish it with shiny brown paint... my mom has a co-worker who gave her a basket just like that... she rolled up the strips, however. A little shiny, brown paint and varnish, and it's hard to tell the difference between paper and flexible wood or twine!

along with the varnish idea, i want to take a moment to show my appreciation for MY mother's favorite thing, which is using brown liquid shoe polish--you know, the kind with the spongey top applicator on the bottle?--to perk things up. old wood, things that want a light finish, all that. it's easy to manipulate, comes with its own applicator and is surprisingly attractive on an wood (or would-be brown) thing.